Mort Walker Quotes

Some of my favorite media is the still cartoon that you can sit and study. You can get amazing metaphors across really quickly. I'm in awe of a Charles Schulz.

The advertisements form the most interesting and practical city news. They are the hopes, the thoughts, the joys, the plans, the shames, the losses, the mishaps, the fortunes, the pleasures, the miseries, the politics, and the religion of the people. Each advertiser is therefore a reporter, a sort of penny-a-liner, he paying the penny. What a picture ... one day's advertisements ... presents to mankind!

About the only way you can find out about the common man, his slang, what he looked like, what he thought, is through the comic strips. It's a powerful way for young people to learn history.

The arts are what humanize science and history.

Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.

Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, movies, museums, schools, etc.

Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision.

Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.

Some of my earliest work was in comics. I tend to think in pictures and always like to write scenes possessing the dynamic you find in comics.

I really like the pop culture materials of everyday life, but used in some way that elevates them to something you notice and care about.

The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

My works were not - and they still aren't - single panel gags with a punch line underneath them. I like a lot of those cartoons; I just don't draw them.

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

A cartoonist creates his whole universe without any input.

I used to love comic books, and I love American comedy, and neither are afraid to tackle big themes.

I hadn't thought specifically about doing graphic novels until a couple of my friends got contracts for them. Then I started picturing how various of my stories or poems would work in an illustrated format and thinking how cool that would be.

I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures.

The real power of comics is writing as you draw.

In prose, you have a lot more room for digression, for very meaty kinds of dialogues. In graphic novels, you're writing haiku-length dialogue. Your job is to be efficient, to get out of the way of the art.

Comics could use more creators with something worthwhile to say.

History is the study of what civilizations die from. Literature is the study of what civilizations live for.

Don Martin was the one who really stood out. I really always loved his work. He was such a great artist.

More than my films being influenced by manga I was indelibly impressed by Manga, and that definitely comes out in the films.